Exhibition runs from Saturday 28 September to Saturday 14 December 2019
Open: Tues – Sat, 10am – 5pm (Last entry 4.40pm) FREE ADMISSION.
Additional opening times during the Lightpool Festival: Friday 18th October until 7pm (Last entry 6.40pm) and Friday 25th October until 6pm (Last entry 5.40pm)
Exhibition with works by Brass Art, Mat Collishaw, Rachel Goodyear, Helen Maurer, Tim Noble and Sue Webster and items on loan from the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum at the University of Exeter.
Continuing Grundy Art Gallery’s commitment to exhibiting and collecting artworks that explore the use of ‘light’; this exhibition brings together a group of internationally recognised contemporary artists whose works cast shadows, conjure illusions and bring the inanimate to life. Referencing pre-cinematic techniques and Victorian optical entertainments, these artworks use the transformative power of light to alter perception and trick the eye.
A programme of talks and workshops will accompany the exhibition, including during the October half-term period.
The Grundy Art Gallery was founded by the brothers Cuthbert and John Grundy in 1911 with the ambition to show the best art of the day to the people of Blackpool. It has been at the centre of artistic life in Blackpool for over 100 years and is now recognized as a leading contemporary visual arts venue in the northwest region with a growing national and international profile. It has been an Arts Council National Portfolio Organisation for the past 8 years and holds Museums Accreditation status.
Grundy’s current position has been achieved through ambitious and contextual programming, which makes the most of its beautiful exhibition spaces and the unique cultural environment and context which exists beyond the gallery walls.
Grundy inspires audiences through an ambitious and varied year-round exhibitions programme that draws on the unique and invigorating context and heritage of Blackpool, for instance exploring the space between contemporary art, entertainment and popular culture.
